Turkey is AWESOME! I seriously loved this place. Amazing architecture, people, history....take a look see.

Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue mosque) in Istanbul.

Fake Laugh Photo

Hagai Sophia in Istanbul (interior photos below)

(This place blew my mind!)

Turkish coffee and Turkish delight with my pally Miriam in Istanbul!

View from the roof of our hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey

lil' guy.

Ruins at Ephesus

Kitty, purrin' around the ruins.

Roman TOILETS? Genius.

Library

Library ceiling

Miriam, Caroline and Hyun Geun. What pals.

The Great Theater! This thing is massive.

poppies growing around the ruins.

Getting a demo of how to spin silk at a Turkish carpet factory

Whippin' out tons of beautiful rugs for us to see.

Pien, Kaitlyn, Rachel, me, Siggi and Emeline. Sleepy pals.

Pien, Kaitlyn, Rachel, me and Sigmund. Pals.

And the happiest face anyone has ever seen: Hyun Geun.

chaco tan, back with full force

Isreal

I didn't get as many pictures from Isreal, but these are still some good'n's. 

floating in the Dead Sea

New Jerusalem

I like this guy.

Old City

Sailing the Sea of Galilee

Egypt

These are some photos from our time in Cairo, Sharm El Shiekh and the Sinai peninsula. They're not in chronological order, sorry about that...blogger tends to freeze up with photo posts, I can't seem to rearrange them. Either way...I'll try to ignore my organizational OCD if you can, too.

Running down sand dunes in Sinai

CAMEL RIDES! and head wraps

See those mountains? That's Saudi Arabia.

camping on the beach

the top of Mt. Sinai

camping on the beaches of the Gulf of Aquaba

on top of Sinai

climbing down Mt. Sinai

Our sassy tour guide.

Just landed in Egypt!

Looking like serious business in hijabs.

Egyptian dinner. MMM.

markets in Cairo

man singing prayers in downtown Cairo.

Bustlin' Cairo.

Pyramids of Giza

The Nile River

Coptic church

coptic tattoo

 

Garbage City

Egyptian family living in Garbage City